Dido embroiled in stolen car drama

The White Flag hitmaker reveals her collaborator, who she does not name, unwittingly drove the pair to a takeaway food outlet in a stolen vehicle, and cops swooped on them.

She tells Q magazine, "My most alarming brush with the law was in America when I was a passenger in a stolen car. It was on my first trip to America to do music.

"I wasn't having a great time anyway because the guy I was working with never got out of bed, but the day before I was due to fly home we went out to get some takeaway food and the police stopped us. It was terrifying. The dead eyes of the cops... and the gun! All I wanted to do was get home. It was not a good time."